Violence In School Essay, Research Paper

Violence in schools has spread widely throughout the nation. This

has caused many problems among students, families, faculty of schools, and

residents of the areas. However, their are many possible ways we can stop

all this violence in schools. Almost three-fourths of the United States

teens are afraid of violent crime amongst their peers. Violence

in schools has become a big problem in today’s society. With all the people

being injured or killed in schools by guns and other weapons, more and

more people are getting more weapons to bring in to schools. Nearly half

of all males and one-third of all students including females said they can

easily obtain a handgun if they wanted to(Glazer 14).

The cause of violence can be blamed on many things but 1 mainly.

And that one thing is drugs and gangs. Now that more people are selling

and buying drugs, people are making money to buy weapons. Gangs, since

they came around violence has been increasing steadily. The spread of

gangs and drugs has also been implicated in the increasing violence of

school youths(Glazer 14).

Experts have also said that most violent conflicts among school-

age children can be traced back to long-simmering disputes.

Carrying guns and other weapons around schools is becoming more and more

popular all around the world. People think that carrying guns around

Schools with them will make them cool or fit in with other people like

themselves. They’re wrong. More and more people who are carrying guns

around schools today are getting caught and having them taken away. Since

schools have gotten metal detectors and scanners, they have cut down the

rate of having handguns in schools by nearly 58%(Glazer 5). Security

experts have reported that there is no evidence that a metal detector will

solve the problem of violence in schools, even though it offers a highly-

visible symbol to the community. Even if the schools with all

the gun violence in their schools do put in metal detectors at the front

entrances of schools, their are many ways kids can sneak in weapons to

school.

In 1990 congress made it a felony to bring a gun within one-

thousand feet of any school under the “Gun-Free School Zones” provision of

the 1990 crime prevention package. This law wont help very much because of

the fact that students can sneak in weapons through bathroom windows, or

an unguarded entrance during recess(Glazer 6). So their isn’t really a

safe and reliable way to keep guns away from schools.

Security has become a big part of schools today. More and more

schools have been getting metal detectors installed. The N.Y. city public

schools report that since the introduction to metal detectors in 1988,

serious incidents have declined by 58% in schools with scanners and by

43% without them(Glazer 5). Every school should start putting in metal

detectors and scanners if they want to cut down violence. Some schools

districts that experimented with metal detectors for a short time found

them a bit frustrating(Gordon 27).

It has become very easy to obtain a gun. A survey of Baltimore

public-schools students showed that the four most prevalent places to get

guns are street corners, friends, drug dealers, and thieves(Gordon 29).

And kids all over the world are getting guns from all these places but

nobody is doing anything about it. It is very easy for someone to obtain

a handgun. All they have to do is go to one of these four places and buy

one. Where do they get the money to buy these guns you ask? From selling

drugs. If we could stop the selling of drugs just by maybe 20% or even 15%,

their would be a whole less violence due to the lack of money. So nobody

would be able to buy a weapon.

Teachers are in as much danger of being killed or attacked as kids

are school. The risk of a teacher being attacked by a student has doubled

since 1956(Glazer 20). This is a lot considering that you don’t hear about

too many teacher attacks on the news but you do hear about teens being

killed. Approximately 100 teachers have been assaulted annually in the

past four school years(Glazer 8).

The big problem involving violence is how we can stop the violence

from spreading and increasing. Not nearly as many teens would have guns if

they didn’t get the money from selling drugs(Gordon 30). So if we can stop

the selling of drugs, less people will have money to buy guns and their

will be less violence.

We can also blame our parents for violence. When parents buy a gun

and put it away, their kid could get a hold of it and bring it to school

and already your in trouble. This is why parents should lock away their

weapons not just stick it in a draw or on the top shelf of a closet.

Parents are responsible for the conduct and safety of their children and

buy keeping a gun where they can get hold of it their putting them in

danger. Violence has caused many problems. Many people have

been killed or seriously injured because of violence. What we should do to

try and prevent violence in schools from increasing is teach our children

young about this stuff and don’t keep a weapon around the house unless

it’s necessary. And if you do keep a weapon in your house. keep it where

it can’t be found that easily.

Works Cited

Glazer, Sarah. “Violence In Schools.” CQ Researcher(Sept. 11,1992): 787-

818. Ed. Elanor Goldstein. Vol. 14. Boca Raton: Sirs,1992. Art. 78.

Witkin, Gordon. “Kids Who Kill.” U.S. News and World Report(April 8,1991):

26-35. Ed. Elanor Goldstein. Vol. 4. Boca Raton: Sirs, 1991. Art. 5.